Dear Dr. Abruzira,

I want to thank you for calling recently about my scheduling an appointment. As is, I don't see myself using the V.A. services again in which blood tests are required for the following reasons.

1. In mid-summer, 2010, I was in the McGuire commissary after getting a haircut when the person behind me started talking loudly to the cashier even though my transaction was clearly not finished. Turning, I saw one of the blood technicians glaring at me. Once again, my odd, unique voice was a cue to a hearer who had heard me before. More importantly, the rude loud speaking and ruder glare prompted the conclusion that my original complaint was shared in such a way that an association was made in the blood-collection unit between my complaint and my person. Ain't no way in hell I am going to play Russian Roulette with my health. I won't go where the welcome mat requires running a gauntlet of glaring gestapo gougers. I'd feel safer being a Gaza teenager asking Israelis for medical treatment.
2. Please recall that the original incident involved the blood clinic staff denying me service by saying in sequence that they would not draw my blood until the last person was stuck with sticking me. Why? Because I feel asleep, the receptionist told me to go in which the blood drawers didn't like when I told them that I had been told to come in. I don't want to take a chance on how they will treat me now. As to the several of them saying they would not draw my blood, is this not a violation of federal law saying healthcare providers cannot deny service? This will be my point of litigation in the future. I will not sue the V.A. but rather the individuals.
3. The last communication from the McGuire facility director in response to my willingness to pay more for alternative blood collection was basically, "These are our services. Take it or leave it."

So, I am focusing on launching my internet service from which I will have funds to formally, litigiously and politically complain. Not for me. Not for money. Not to win. But for vets being mistreated by V.A. staff--I do not include you nor the majority of staff in this complaint. It has been a failure of management both before and after my complaint. When individuals have to use personal time and funds for courtroom appearances then they will be more considerate of other human beings.

I hope that I don't have to use McGuire in an emergency pending my purchasing private insurance. I still intend to leave my estate (meager or more) to the V.A. in appreciation for how the U.S. military did so much for me in having a good, lucky and happy life.

Sincerely,

Robert S. Barnett

P.S. You will recall my prior comments on how, based on a 1982 paper and subsequent research, I had said that rising atmospheric CO2 will cause longer droughts broken by deluges. This year in Richmond from June to mid-October we had a drought broken by a single day of rain (6.5") that was greater than the previous 4.5 months of precipitation. While others are polishing parts of my website for its probable launch, I am finishing what I consider one of the greatest derived insights from timism: The speed of light is not linear but rotational. A simple analogy is how your car could be on a mechanic's lift with the engine turning the wheels at 60mph as indicated by the speedometer. As such and on a road, the real phenomenon is the rotation of the wheel with the linear travel being a dependent epiphenomenon. If correct, it will shake the field of physics at its foundation. I show how the great schism in physics (Einstein's relativity versus Planck's quantum mechanics) is due to mis-defining the speed of light as linear rather than rotational. But none of this matters because the existential meltdown is going to destroy human civilization at an accelerating rate, e.g., Pakistani floods and financial crises/riots. In the next two or three years, our lives will be totally changed like a combination of 1860, 1914, 1929 and 1939. We will envy the caveman who did not live in an overpopulated world of people wanting something for nothing. This is one of the reasons that I am not concerned about long-term personal medical care. It is like exercising on a sinking ship a 1000 miles from land with no lifeboats.